Saturday, 31 October 2015

Many years ago I posted a blog post about an academic article I had written about zombies. Finally, the article was published in Mathematical Modelling of Zombies. The book is designed to be readable by anyone with an interest in mathematics. However, those with an numerical background will find that it pushes them further as it does not shy away from clearly displaying the mathematics, whilst explaining the methods behind the madness.

As always, thank you to Martin Berube
for the use of his zombie image.

The articles range over a number of fields and are simply a means to dress up our everyday techniques in a way that is more palatable for a non-mathematical audience. Of course not all of you will want to shell out for the book. Thus, I've decided to essentially serialize the chapter in the next few posts, thus, we will be looking at all of the results of our paper and, hopefully, I'll be explaining the mathematics more clearly, so that any one is able to follow it. I may even throw in a matlab code or two, so that anyone is able to reproduce the results.

An idea not communicated can scarcely be said to exist.

I am a researcher of mathematical biology at the University of Oxford. Although I now do mathematics as a career I remember how hard maths was when I first started. I also remember what caused things to make sense. I try to relay these insights to everyone, with the hope that they, too, will understand.
Home page:
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~woolley/index.htm